I really didn't mean to kick this off ;)
Original poster: instead of the GUI programm, I recommend you try
cfdisk. It's not "graphical", but it has a nice UI, and it can do
everything you need. `sudo cfdisk /dev/device` and you're going to
be much happier.
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